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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Schedule activity that follows a predecessor activity as determined by their logical relationship






2. Inclusive term - describes the sum of knowledge within the profession of project management. includes proven traditional practices that are widely applied and innovative practices that are emerging.






3. A source of variation that is inherent in the system and predictable. on a control chart - it appears as part of the random process variation and is indicated by random pattern of points within the control limits. also referred to as random cause






4. Aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to establish an authorized cost baseline






5. Type of procurement document used to request price quotations from prospective sellers of common or standard products or services






6. Defined systematic procedure employed by a human resource to perform an activity to produce a product or result or deliver a service that may employ one or more tools






7. Analyzing activity sequences - durations - resource requirements and schedule constraints to create the project schedule






8. Schedule activity that determines when the logical successor activity can begin or end






9. Analytical technique that uses mathematical models to forecast future outcomes based on historical results. it is a method of determining the variance from a baseline parameter by using prior progress reporting periods data and projecting how much th






10. Those processes performed to finalize all activities across all project management process groups to formally close the project or phase






11. Deliverable oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables






12. Schedule network diagramming technique in which schedule activities are represented by boxes or nodes. schedule activities are graphically linked by one or more logical relationships to show the sequence in which the activities are performed






13. A specific technique for measuring the performance of work and used to establish the performance measurement baseline






14. The time in calendar units between the actual start date of the schedule activity and either the data date of the project schedule if the schedule activity is in progress or the actual finish date if the schedule activity is complete






15. Making relevant information available to project stakeholders






16. The acquirer of products - services or results for an organization






17. A condition or situation favorable to the project - a positive set of circumstances - a positive set of events - a risk that will have a positive impact.






18. Implementing risk response plans - tracking identified risks - monitoring residual risks - identifying new risks and evaluating risk process throughout the project






19. Measure of schedule efficiency on a project. ratio of earned value (EV) and the planned value (PV). SV = EV minus PV.






20. Category or rank used to distinguish items that have the same functional use but do not share the same requirements for quality






21. Aggregation of the processes - tools - techniques - methodologies - resources and procedures to manage a project






22. Risk response planning technique that indicates the project team has decided not to change the project management plan to deal with a risk - or is unable to identify any other suitable response strategy






23. Work that must be performed to deliver a product - service or result with the specified features and functions






24. Subsystem of overall project management system. collection of formal documented procedures that defines how project work will be authorized to ensure that the work is done by the identified organization - at the right time and in the proper sequence.






25. Document describing how roles and responsibilities - reporting relationships and staffing management will be addressed and structured for the project






26. Those processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy project objectives






27. Processes to purchase or acquire the products - services or results needed from outside the project team to perform the work






28. Structure that relates the project organizational breakdown structure to the work breakdown structure to help ensure that each component of the project scope of work is assigned to a person or team






29. Something tangible used in performing an activity to produce a product or result






30. Document that describes how procurement processes from developing procurement documentation through contract closure will be managed






31. Collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecasts






32. Process which generates hundreds or thousands of probable performance outcomes based on probability distributions for cost and schedule on individual tasks. the outcomes are used to generate a probability distribution for a project as a whole.






33. Documents utilized in bid and proposal activities - which include the buyer's invitation for bid - invitation for negotiations - request for information - request for quotation - request for proposal and sellers responses






34. Output from performing project management processes and activities. results include outcomes and documents.






35. Degree - amount or volume of risk that an organization or individual will withstand






36. Person or organization that is actively involved in the project or whose interests may be positively or negatively affected by execution or completion of the project






37. The statue - quality or sense of being restricted to a given course of action or inaction. an applicable restriction or limitation - either internal or external to a project - which will affect the performance of the project or a process.






38. A diagram that describes a decision under consideration and the implications of choosing one or another of the available alternatives. it is used when some future scenarios or outcomes of actions are uncertain. it incorporates probabilities and costs






39. Store of historical information and lessons learned about both the outcomes of previous project selection decisions and previous project performance






40. Any form of schedule network analysis in which scheduling decisions are driven by resource constraints






41. An organizational placement strategy where the project team members are physically located close to one another in order to improve communication - working relationships and productivity






42. Monitoring and recording results of executing the quality activities to assess performance and recommend necessary changes






43. Compares technical accomplishments during project execution to the project management plan's schedule of planned technical achievements.






44. Logical grouping of project management inputs - tools and techniques and outputs. includes initiating processes - planning processes - executing processes - monitoring and controlling processes and closing processes. NOT project phases






45. The formally documented identification of a defect in a project component with a recommendation to either repair the defect or completely replace the component






46. Developing a detailed description of the project and product






47. Application of knowledge - skills - tools and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements






48. A histogram - ordered by frequency of occurrence - that shows how many results were generated by each identified cause






49. Specific version of the schedule model used to compare actual results to the plan to determine if preventive or corrective action is needed to meet the project objectives






50. The process of finalizing all activities across all of the project management process groups to formally complete the project or phase